Southwest Airlines Co. to Present at the Next Generation Equity Research Airline Conference

DALLAS, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) has been invited to speak at the Next Generation Equity Research Airline Conference. Next Generation Equity Research will be webcasting the audio presentation live, and a link to the webcast will be made available via the Investor Relations homepage on the Southwest Airlines web site. Details of the audio webcast are as follows:

Date:         Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Time:         10:15 a.m. Eastern Time

Speaker:      Gary Kelly, Chairman, President and
              Chief Executive Officer

Web Address:  www.southwest.com

Contact:      Investor Relations (214) 792-4415

To access the live audio webcast on the Investor Relations homepage, click on "About Southwest" and select Investor Relations from the "About SWA" sidebar menu. A replay of the Southwest Airlines presentation will be available on the Events Calendar in the Investor Relations section of www.southwest.com.

Minimum Requirements to listen to broadcast:

Windows Media Player software, downloadable free from http://www.microsoft.com, and at least a 56K bps connection to the Internet. If you experience problems listening to the webcast, click on the help menu in the webcast browser.

SOURCE Southwest Airlines Co.

Released December 8, 2009